Beans planted

[bigtiller]

My large farmer friend uses all JD GPS guided planting equipment. They have experimented a lot with speed. They are at 4.5mph. Best seed placement at that speed. Not quite as critical with beans as it is with corn.

Here's a Drone shot of their planters at work planting beans. They should finish this week. Planted 10,742 acres of corn. Not sure what the total is on beans but will be around 17,000 acres.

That should be enough acreage to raise a family.:thumbsup:

 

[ovrszd]

That should be enough acreage to raise a family.:thumbsup:

Yep. Doug and wife, his three grown children an their families and a dozen employees with families.

Pretty cool to watch tractor/planter go across field with steering wheel tilted up and operator sitting cross legged and arms folded.

 

[Stimw]

I picked a pound of Rattlesnake beans Saturday! My first pick this season with more to come.
Rattlesnake Pole Bean | Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co
Been growing them for 3 years now and love them!

 

[farmer2009]

That photo looks like one from South America. Very nice. A few 24 row planters around but mostly 16 and under.

 

[ovrszd]

They've got two double row planters only used for beans. They are the two in the front being pulled by 300+hp center pivot tractors. Total overkill. But they don't have any smaller tractors. Those large tractors are normally doing heavy tillage and pulling grain carts.

The next three are 24 row. The last one is 12 row.

How many Million do you see there?

 

[Leejohn]

I see right near 1.7M.

 

[DrRod]

Beans planted Friday with this 36 row planter. 30 acres took less than an hour.

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That is impressive. But I want to know how long it took to stage it all, load it all, and clean up afterwards.

 

[bigtiller]

That is impressive. But I want to know how long it took to stage it all, load it all, and clean up afterwards.

I don't know what any of that means, but they were here less than an hour. In that hour the hopper was filled from a nurse trailer, the planter was unfolded and put to work, then folded back up, seed spacing and depth were checked and finally, howdy dos were offered and away he went to the next field.

 

[DrRod]

I was just thinking that most projects at my place require as much time to get ready as to actually do the work. The classic case is painting -- finding everything and dragging it out, then cleaning up an storing it all, seems to take as much time as the painting. So I was curious if the prep required two hours of handling seed bags or an hour of washing equipment. Apparently not -- thanks.

 

[ovrszd]

No seed bag handling.

But try to imagine how many critical parts are on a 24 row planter.

The planters are computer monitored and with GPS, require multiple computer systems running on the tractor. Setup includes telling the computers what field you are in, what grain you are planting and at what population rate. I'm sure there is more but I'm too naive to know them.